Roots Of Fight Blog

The Start Of Hot Rod

As far as game-changers go, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper stands alone. In the ring, Piper was a super star. Outside of it? Sublime. In a career that spanned 42 years, he was a virtuoso on the microphone unl...

The Influence of David Bowie is eternal

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” Lady Gaga has said that she doesn’t know what her identity would be if there were no David Bowie. John Lennon admired his individuality. Artists d...

The Great One was more than an athlete

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.” He was an ambassador for go...

Pelé, 1980

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” He is a literal national treasure in his native...

The #42 Varsity Jacket

"I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me...all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”For 10 seasons, he was Brooklyn. For the generations, he’s been an icon. Baseball wouldn’t b...

This Is AC/DC

Power up! AC/DC supercharged rock & roll from the moment they burst on the scene. From the opening riff, the stadiums quake. The drums rumble and the foundation crumbles. The fists pump, the l...

Ahead Of His Time

“We were creating the 21st century in 1971.”The genius of David Bowie wouldn’t be contained to a single galaxy, so he gave this world Ziggy Stardust. That’s when rock & roll went interstel...

The King Reported For Duty

"The Army teaches boys to think like men.”Imagine the sensation of the day. A few years after his smash hit single “Heartbreak Hotel,” Elvis went into the Army. From 1958-1960 he served as a membe...

The Dark Side Of The Moon

The prism wasn’t just a cover - it was a statement. For the eighth album, Pink Floyd busted the floodgates of imagination wide open. “The Dark Side of the Moon.” Those six words have come to def...

"Camp Of The Champ" | Deer Lake '72

  They talk about blood, sweat and tears. Behind the bombast and audacity, the lyrics and the rhymes, there was a scarcely populated hamlet in Schuylkill County in the heart of Pennsylvania ca...